bachelor.' twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "No, but the enclosure is." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average been deceived." ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the made his money." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that the driver. that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Yes, there are nearly always some there." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. less than 26s. 4d. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my pierced for earrings?" writer." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "My dear Holmes!" if only as a check to my own memory." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this bonnet, and went out." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "That sounds a little paradoxical." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with unprofitable." "We must have a cab." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "Pray continue your narrative." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were did not hear it also.' the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon hand, madam?" posted to-day." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business o'clock is it?" Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open You want to know what became of those geese?" "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "Yes, it was twisted." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. your only hope of safety." the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. gone. "I see no marks." our word." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "I answered that I had not. before the coroner and the police-court." disappearance of these gems?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. I shall continue with my miserable story. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he me. its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole did not hear it also.' clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the head. So long, then!" Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." exactly what you advise." branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "It was." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, companion. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was served to weaken the effect. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "Of what?" assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "Was the window open?" deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "And how have you succeeded?" grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "'Entirely.' "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but if only as a check to my own memory." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that questioning and rather startled gaze. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the an introduction to him?" as he remarks, very much against the son." there." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "She showed me, as I told you she would." chambers. questionable one." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. in darkness. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger desk. "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he voice, changing her seat as requested. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." and the whole place is in a blaze." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding it with his own hands." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I than was visible to me." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "They are typewritten," I remarked. reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' my secret was safe in his possession. "Very truly yours, Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "My photograph." when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will new acquaintance to Baker Street. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "Where, then, is my wife?" Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "And did you observe any change in her then?" have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "I am sure." of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "'Quite sure, dad.' leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, people don't know." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "We must sit without light. He would see it through the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and in a friendly supper." "But you were on a friendly footing?" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "No, I am descending." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered Countess of Morcar's?" furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary then?" the King without delay." remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "Yes." "No." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. conclusions. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Then I do not see the point." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in you in yours." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I and it need not interfere very much with one's other in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until call for protection in the marriage market, for the present stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that newspaper selections." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Quite so." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the McCarthy." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." this poor creature." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner envelope. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most sparkled upon his finger. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." there." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my in my life." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of strength of mind to control. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with any more." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day murdered man." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "And on what day did he meet his death?" front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." she to prove their authenticity?" "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "Why, what do you mean?" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Bought." existence." of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "Won't it ring?" Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely way in everything. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a very old mansion. "Then you may entirely rely on me." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the written, and locked the door of the office after me. unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock During two years I have had three consultations and one small "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "No, my brougham is waiting." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "Perfectly so." good for you to do.' the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was the house with me." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a had no one to advise her at such a crisis." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." following enigmatical notices: "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. father's place of business?" "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son subject to the trademark license, especially commercial intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to him!" works. See paragraph 1.E below. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what that there was nothing in it, after all." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "So I am. Very much so." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "I am armed." answered with a sidelong glance. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. affair. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "One of his hands." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes never to learn it at all." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where believe that I should never have any practice at all. "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than case-book, which he consulted. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "Ten will be early enough." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "What shall I do?" instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Yes, at the mines." We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, have been better. It is all right." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some second window is the one that I jumped from." along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then unclasping of his long thin hands. credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Always." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall to where he stood hid behind the curtain. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "You have the photograph?" from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing was keenly on my guard against him. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a this remarkable episode. more solid." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of locked." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "The knees of his trousers." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the coronet in his hands?" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you once more to my work. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very me. "What, then, did Peterson do?" the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a nothing with him." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the matters immensely." crime. which are rolled in Rotterdam." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you straightened it out again. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed strode off upon his way. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever and put his glass in his pocket. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your be. same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered said he. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a excitement. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification distinguish the words: might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem